some reviews to come

Although I am presently reading The Message Stick to review it I had a request for some well known psychology books. I am not ready to publish my review on Message Stick, I read over 100 pages of it last night but I have found reading this type of book as an eBook is slower than reading the same book in hard copy. I will be posting on Friday. The holiday has slowed things down a little. To help out my reader from SE Asia I will be posting reviews of 2 older but well known psychology books. I am not sure exactly what type of psychology book that they are looking for so I will be writing a review of Girl, Interrupted and The Dance of Anger. Both have been done many times and are familiar to many American and Canadian readers they are not as well known in other countries, especially not in non-English speaking countries. I hope this will answer the request I had and share information on two books that many people may have heard of but never read. I read Girl, Interrupted long before the movie was ever made. The Dance of Anger has been translated into many languages but many people still haven't personally read it.

Information for Fairy Dreams

Title: Fairy Dreams

Author: Brenna Lyons

Publisher: Muldania Press
Copyright: 2007
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59426-395-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59426-394-1
Page count: 348
Reviewer gave: 5 hearts

I'm glad I don't appear to have anyone actually reading this blog as I get it up and running and find my feet. I apologize to anyone reading back posts for all my errors. This is a learning experience. I still haven't figured out graphics so no picture of the book cover. After the holidays I hope to have this ready to publisize.

Posting info on book later

I will be posting all the information for buyers to find this book later. I need to find it first. Right now it is 8 am and I haven't been to bed yet so I think sleep has to come first.

Wednesday --- Wow!!!

Recently I spent most of one night laying on the floor in the dark my laptop perched on my chest keeping it in easy reading distance. For those wondering what had me up all night; I was on a rollercoaster of humans, fairies and love. I spent the night reading Brenna Lyons book Fairy Dreams. It is a slightly older book but I had read an excerpt and it sounded like a book I would enjoy.
This is a book that never stops. It goes from one high to the next with little or no breaks. I could not find any break in the action that I felt allowed me to stop reading after the first 50-75 pages. I quite literally could not put it down. At nearly 600 pages, this is a long book but it didn't feel like it was any where near that long.
I called this a rollercoaster because there are so many peaks and valleys. Countless times I thought that the action was winding down and wondered how the remaining pages were going to be filled. It just seemed like it couldn't get any better but each time it did. This was one of the most enjoyable reads I have had in a long time. I read many books I really like but I only started with ebooks a few weeks ago and this is by far the longest that I have read.
Brenna Lyons was able to keep the action and the surprises coming throughout the entire book. The biggest surprise is barely hinted at throughout the book yet when it is disclosed it make perfect sense and all the clues are there in retrospect. It takes incredible skill to write a book this long and not have a dull moment. I didn't see a single dull moment. The story moved the reader from one scene to the next keeping the tension and interest level high.
I don't want to disclose too much about the actual story because I don't want to spoil it for future readers. The excerpt gives the information that the story involves the Blake women, especially the last one, their land and a fairy named Caudal who is there to help protect the land. That is a bare minimum or information but the excerpt pulls the reader in and makes you want to see more. I loved this and definitely want to read more of her books. In this case I found a new author to love. I can't wait to read more.

This book is definitely a 5 heart read.

deciding and getting organized

I'm caught up in trying to get an idea and plan of when I will do specific blogs. I'm also trying to decide what books to review to start with. Most of my present collection of books are at least several months past their debut. I have recently begun reading ebooks. I enjoys them but have been reading some older ones by authors that have current excerpts that sound good. I prefer not to spend much money on books that are unreadable. Unfortunately, many of the books I have bought in the last year that were not by my tried and true authors have fallen into that category. I will be doing some reviews of older books that I found so good that I couldn't put them down or so bad they fall into the very small group of books I refuse to have in my house. I'm still working on getting the blog setup and organized. I am going to try and post a review 1 day every week. Right now I am aiming for Mondays. It may change after I see how it fits into my schedule but for now that is what I see happening. Tomorrow I am going to have a review of Fairy Dreams by Brenna Lyons. It is a few years old but I think it is worth a review.

Hi there....

Hi all,
Just getting started but wanted to give a taste of what to expect here. I'm an avid reader. If it has been written unless it is incredibly bad I am at least willing to try reading it. I have even read the front of the yellow pages when stranded without a book.
I enjoy sharing what I have read. Letting friends know what books I have liked, which not so much, which weren't to my taste and which I can't see how any one could like. Since my friends have trusted me to read and review books for them for years I thought I would give it a try for general audiences. It's a bit easier for my friends since I know them well enough to be able to tailor my opinion to their preferences. This will be a bit different for me.
I am also a writer. So far other than my college newspaper and some group newsletters I haven't been published but I am working on it. I wrote my first book (complete with illustrations) in second grade. I write in a wide variety of genres. At the moment I have a children picturebook completed that needs to be submitted to a publisher, and my WIPs include: A children's book about a mouse and kitten who are friends, a sci-fi based on aliens and my cat, a paranormal romance, a romance about a second chance at love and family, some short stories and a couple of erotic romances. Some of those WIPs are barebones research and ideas some have several chapters done, some I am rewriting because though they were backed up sections were lost when I killed my pc. If you can do it to a computer I probably have.
I hope you will come back and see what I have to say. It may be a review of a book, an excerpt of a WIP, or information on other authors or contests but it will always be something unique.